The legend of the Chepstow Dragon has been compared to that of the Loch Ness monster. It is a myth based in the small town of Chepstow, South Wales.
The legend goes that two dragons, a vicious green dragon from the south of Wales called Myfunwi and a friendly red dragon from the North called Ffwrwm, took part in a fight many years ago in a battle of national pride. The battle took place in the mountains of Snowdonia, North Wales and the vicious green dragon looked easily likely to defeat the red dragon, who did not particularly want to engage in the fight in the first place. However, the red dragon was resilient and fought off the attacks of the green dragon, and eventually the green dragon grew tired and could fight no more. At this point, the red dragon could have killed the green dragon off. However, he decided to send him to live forever underwater, and legend has it that ever since he has lived at the bottom of the river Wye.
The red dragon of course has gone on to be the symbolic of Wales, but the green dragon remains a source of mystery in the small town of Chepstow.
The legend goes that two dragons, a vicious green dragon from the south of Wales called Myfunwi and a friendly red dragon from the North called Ffwrwm, took part in a fight many years ago in a battle of national pride. The battle took place in the mountains of Snowdonia, North Wales and the vicious green dragon looked easily likely to defeat the red dragon, who did not particularly want to engage in the fight in the first place. However, the red dragon was resilient and fought off the attacks of the green dragon, and eventually the green dragon grew tired and could fight no more. At this point, the red dragon could have killed the green dragon off. However, he decided to send him to live forever underwater, and legend has it that ever since he has lived at the bottom of the river Wye.
The red dragon of course has gone on to be the symbolic of Wales, but the green dragon remains a source of mystery in the small town of Chepstow.
Rat Capone is a fictional character created for The Walt Disney Company who appeared in the late 1980s animated series Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers as a rat crime boss. His name is an homage to Al Capone.
Capone has two henchmen, a heavy-set rat named Arnold Mouseaneggar (a take on Arnold Schwarzenegger) and a lizard named Sugar Ray Lizard (a take on Sugar Ray Leonard). Like Fat Cat's henchmen, Arnold and Sugar Ray are portrayed as not very intelligent.
In his first appearance in the episode "," Capone has engineered the theft of all the city's milk, cornering the market on cheese production. Any mouse wanting cheese is thus forced to pay his extortion prices, or work for him as slave labor. In his second appearance in "," the last episode of season two, Capone is again using slave labor, this time to build for himself an elaborate palace in the sewer. In both instances, but especially in "The S.S. Drainpipe," Capone has shown an attraction to Gadget Hackwrench (calling her his "mall," a play on "gun moll"), a vulnerability which the Rescue Rangers exploit.
A character similar to Capone appeared in "" as the leader of the rodent henchmen of that episode's main villain. It is debatable whether that character and Capone are one and the same.
Capone has two henchmen, a heavy-set rat named Arnold Mouseaneggar (a take on Arnold Schwarzenegger) and a lizard named Sugar Ray Lizard (a take on Sugar Ray Leonard). Like Fat Cat's henchmen, Arnold and Sugar Ray are portrayed as not very intelligent.
In his first appearance in the episode "," Capone has engineered the theft of all the city's milk, cornering the market on cheese production. Any mouse wanting cheese is thus forced to pay his extortion prices, or work for him as slave labor. In his second appearance in "," the last episode of season two, Capone is again using slave labor, this time to build for himself an elaborate palace in the sewer. In both instances, but especially in "The S.S. Drainpipe," Capone has shown an attraction to Gadget Hackwrench (calling her his "mall," a play on "gun moll"), a vulnerability which the Rescue Rangers exploit.
A character similar to Capone appeared in "" as the leader of the rodent henchmen of that episode's main villain. It is debatable whether that character and Capone are one and the same.
Grace M. Taylor Clawson (November 15, 1887 - May 28, 2002) was a supercentenarian who was born in England, but emigrated to Montreal as an infant, and in 1901 to the United States, where she lived in Illinois and later Florida. Clawson is notable as the then "oldest living American", this status having been retroactively recognized following the death of Maude Farris-Luse. If Kamato Hongo was, as has been postulated, a year younger than claimed, then Clawson would have become the world's oldest person at this time, succeeded by fellow immigrant Adelina Domingues upon her own death.
Clawson's age became confused when, for a time, she was given up for adoption. As an adult, she thought she was born in 1889. In 1917, she married Ray Clawson in Chicago. They had has two daughters, five grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren.
In 2001, researchers located the original 1887 birth record of Grace Taylor in London, which was written in 1887, proving that she was in fact two years older.
Clawson's family had planned to apply to the Guinness Book of World Records for recognition of her oldest living American status, but she died before the application documents arrived. Her age was posthumously verified by the Gerontology Research Group, and later accepted as valid by the International Database on Longevity.
Clawson's age became confused when, for a time, she was given up for adoption. As an adult, she thought she was born in 1889. In 1917, she married Ray Clawson in Chicago. They had has two daughters, five grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren.
In 2001, researchers located the original 1887 birth record of Grace Taylor in London, which was written in 1887, proving that she was in fact two years older.
Clawson's family had planned to apply to the Guinness Book of World Records for recognition of her oldest living American status, but she died before the application documents arrived. Her age was posthumously verified by the Gerontology Research Group, and later accepted as valid by the International Database on Longevity.
Missing black women syndrome (MBWS) is a term used to describe the belief of many that missing black women generate more attention from the media than from other racial groups or sexes. This observation has been made by many in the non-mainstream news media, but is still a significant view. For example, the disappearance of Tamika Huston attracted more attention than from members of other races who go missing. The counterpart to MBWS is MWWS or Missing white woman syndrome.
See Also
Missing White Woman Syndrome
See Also
Missing White Woman Syndrome